8vo. various paging totalling xxx, +304 pp., frontispiece portrait, edited by Michael Abitbol and Amos Nadan, cloth, index, New, Ashgate Variorum, Aldershot, 2007.

Synopsis

Levtzion pursues the theme of the history of Islam in Africa including a broader chronological and geographic perspectives. It includes four new papers, delivered by the author in the years before his death.
This second volume of studies by the late Nehemia Levtzion pursues the themes covered in his previous collection, Islam in West Africa; it also maintains a particular interest in the history of Africa while including broader chronological and geographic perspectives. It includes four new papers, delivered by the author in the years before his death, specially prepared for publication in this volume. In the first part, there is an emphasis on processes of conversion and Islamization, but the studies also cover Islamic perceptions of and presence in Africa; the second focuses on Islamic movements of revival and renewal, Sufism and fundamentalism.